Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SPIRITUAL WOMAN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE


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First Line: Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind
Last Line: I hate you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.


CLOSE your eyes, my love, let me make you blind;
They have taught you to see
Only a mean arithmetic on the face of things,
A cunning algebra in the faces of men,
And God like geometry
Completing his circles, and working cleverly.

I'll kiss you over the eyes till I kiss you blind;
If I can -- if any one could.
Then perhaps in the dark you'll have got what you want to find.
You've discovered so many bits, with your clever eyes,
And I'm a kaleidoscope
That you shake and shake, and yet it won't come to your mind.
Now stop carping at me. -- But God, how I hate you!
Do you fear I shall swindle you?
Do you think if you take me as I am, that that will abate you
Somehow? -- so sad, so intrinsic, so spiritual, yet so cautious, you
Must have me all in your will and your consciousness --
I hate you.






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